Murakami i tym razem w mistrzowski sposób buduje fantastyczne postaci, równoległe światy, zaciera granice między rzeczywistością a literaturą. 1Q84 to opowiadana na przemian historia kobiety i mężczyzny, Aomame i Tengo, sensacyjna, chwilami wręcz przerażająca. Oboje w dzieciństwie dobrze się znali i wszystko wskazuje na to, że ich ścieżki znowu się skrzyżują. Ona jest instruktorką sztuk walki, a po godzinach perfekcyjną morderczynią....

An ode to George Orwell's "1984" told in alternating male and female voices relates the stories of Aomame, an assassin for a secret organization who discovers that she has been transported to an alternate reality, and Tengo, a mathematics lecturer and novice writer.

A thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the...

What will 21st century fiction look like? Acclaimed literary critic Adam Kirsch examines some of our most beloved writers, including Haruki Murakami, Elena Ferrante, Roberto Bolano, and Margaret Atwood, to better understand literature in the age of globalization. The global novel, he finds, is not so much a genre as a way of imagining the world, one that allows the novel to address both urgent contemporary concerns -- climate change, genetic engineering,...